Scheduling reboot?

[horinius]

Hi, Is there any system setting which could reboot Fortigate 80c at regular intervals, eg once a month? If there' s none, is there any way to send a " reboot" command through network to it? TIA

[ede_pfau]

Hi, there is, kind of:

config system global
     set daily-restart 
        disable    disable daily reboot of the fortigate
        enable     enable daily reboot of the fortigate
 
 set restart-time 
        <hh:mm>    use colon to connect hour and minute values
 

NB, that' s daily! AFAIK there is no " remote" reboot command in FortiOS. I doubt this would be a good idea in a security device. Of course, you can always log in via ssh and " exe rebo" but that is interactive only. I wouldn' t even think of using telnet + an expect script...

[Matthijs]

Don' t use telnet on a security device ;-) There are ways to do this from a linux machine very simple, but why do you want to reboot on a regular base? It' s not windows but it' s Fortigate. They both have problems but that doesn' t mean they are solved with the same solution ;)

[horinius]

Only " daily reboot" ...!? Oh, no thanks. Why do I want a regular reboot? Because until yesterday, I' ve been receiving an expired IMAP certificate for GMail issued by the Fortigate; the expiration time was something like 22/4/2011. Then yesterday after I rebooted the FGT, the certificate has a new expiration date (somewhere in February 2012)! So I figure out it might be a good idea to reboot it regularly. That might also help on other invisible things. Who knows!

[emnoc]

the expiration time was something like 22/4/2011

How can that be, 22 is not a valid month? If your having a certificate problem, you should be fixing the root issues

[rwpatterson]

dd/mm/yyyy in some places....

[horinius]

ORIGINAL: emnoc

the expiration time was something like 22/4/2011

How can that be, 22 is not a valid month? If your having a certificate problem, you should be fixing the root issues

OK, next time I' ll write in ISO 8601 format And the so-called " certificate problem" is fixed by reboot.

[lmuir]

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/f20675c68cd31b1c

[horinius]

ORIGINAL: lmuir http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/f20675c68cd31b1c

Nope, as far as I could see, that' s not the cause of the problem. Anyway, that post dated back to 2008 - too old.